Voices of the land and ancestry: imagining new perspectives for the Anthropocene

Abstract

The Anthropocene is a time of crisis with environmental, climatic, economic, social, political and epistemological dimensions, involving not only humanity, but planet Earth as a whole. Although the imminence of the non-existence of a world in becoming brings us anguish and longing, it is also an opportunity to think about other possible futures and the paths that can be (or are already being) taken to achieve them. We start from the hypothesis that the imagination of new aesthetic-ethical-political projects in the Anthropocene is inseparable from dialog with the voices of the land, its politics of ancestry and epistemes experienced daily in the heat of life. In this sense, the article aims to analyze reflections by indigenous and quilombola thinkers that enable us to escape the anthropocentric blindness of the modern world and understand other ways of dealing with time, other knowledges and enunciations, thus guaranteeing new perspectives for our survival in the Anthropocene.